This novel study breaks the novel into 17 reading assignments, and includes a pre-reading journal entry and research page. This book bring history alive, and works great in conjunction with Social Studies slavery and post-slavery units! Themes include freedom, racial justice / racial tension, friendship, overcoming obstacles, and more. Your students will love this spunky main character, and will be captivated by her journey to find her own freedom. "Sugar," a historical fiction novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes, tells the story of a young orphan on a post-slavery sugar plantation in Louisiana. This CCSS-aligned novel study unit may be simple to implement, but it requires higher-order thinking for students to complete! This resource guides students through this historical fiction novel with graphic organizers, text-dependent questions, and plenty of opportunities to think critically about the story at hand!
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